BigCommerce is a cloud-based open SaaS (Software as a Service) e-commerce platform designed for businesses to build, manage and grow their online stores. It has various native features like built-in SEO, no transaction fees, multi-channel selling. It allows the merchant to manage and sell physical and digital products, customize themes using drag-and-drop editor. Shopify is […]
B2B Buyer Portal is an open-source monorepo frontend application designed for the BigCommerce B2B Edition Buyer Portal. This Buyer Portal is built using Turborepo, TypeScript, and React. This allows developers to build a customized buyer portal experience using the Buyer Portal’s source code, reducing the solution’s cost for complex B2B needs. BigCommerce provides a strong foundation for developers […]
BigCommerce B2B Edition is the Enterprise B2B offered by BigCommerce. It provides a collection of back-end and self-serve tools for optimizing the experience of B2B ecommerce. It is an all-in-one solution that supports enterprise-level B2B functionality for businesses of all types and sizes. This enables business owners to offer and provide customers with self-service account […]
B2B customers can apply for a Company account by submitting a Company account application from the storefront. The form will ask the customers to provide the information of the Company admin user along with the Company name and contact details. The Sellers can approve the Company account in the BigCommerce B2B Edition control panel. After […]
In the BigCommerce B2B edition, there are several ways to create a company. Apart from customers applying for a Company account, there are other ways to create company accounts from the Bigcommerce B2B dashboard. You can check our Apply for Company Account blog for applying for a Company account. Let’s have a look at the […]
Localization and Internationalization in BigCommerce Catalyst describe the ability to present a personalized shopping experience for shoppers in different locales. Catalyst utilizes the Next.js App Router Internationalization library to detect and track a shopper’s preferred locale, enabling the delivery of content in the correct language, the application of locale-specific formatting, and the tailoring of product offerings to specific locales.
Customer session management is the process of tracking a user’s interaction with an application. It maintains their authenticated state and stores temporary data throughout their visit. Bigcommerce Catalyst uses a customer access token obtained during customer login to identify that customer’s context when making GraphQL Storefront API queries and mutations.
Routing in a web application is the process that resolves a particular URL path to a rendered page. Catalyst has a pre-built, opinionated routing scheme for all major storefront page types. BigCommerce products, categories, brands, and web pages each have a URL path value.
To deploy BigCommerce Catalyst with Vercel, a few procedures are necessary. BigCommerce Catalyst is the headless commerce starter kit from BigCommerce, developed with Next.js, to deploy the kit on Vercel easily. Steps to Deploy Bigcommerce Catalyst with Vercel Follow these steps to deploy Bigcommerce Catalyst with Vercel: Step 1: Clone the Catalyst Repository You have […]
Like all complex front-end web applications, Bigcommerce Catalyst Storefront utilizes a number of strategies to ensure performance, which includes both fast-loading pages for users and efficient utilization of back-end resources. We’ve examined the key strategies in the areas of data fetching, caching, and static rendering.
You can create a new Catalyst storefront channel in the Channels section of the store control panel, just like other channel types. This process, referred to as One-Click Catalyst, does more than create a channel; it also includes deploying a hosted preview of the storefront and provisioning a corresponding site in the Makeswift visual editor.
The backbone of Catalyst is a limited set of tools that have wide adoption and popularity in enterprise web application development. This means developers can build on top of Catalyst with the frameworks and languages they already love to use.
